page_title: Limehouse Cut
section_title: Detail image
hierarchical_section_title: Limehouse Cut / Social and industrial history / The Burdett Road Bridge enclave / Detail image
caption_attribution_description: English: A cartoon in The Graphic illustrates Dod Street as it was in 1885. The image is an inset that depicts an uncharacteristically quiet street on a Sunday morning: the usual crowds are attending a socialist demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
context_page_description: The Limehouse Cut is a largely straight, broad canal in the East End of London, England, which linked the lower reaches of the Lee Navigation to the River Thames. Opening on 17 September 1770, and widened for two-way traffic by 1777, it is the oldest canal in the London area. Although short, it has a diverse social and industrial history. It now connects to Limehouse Basin as a result of changes made in 1968.
  The Cut turns in a broad curve from Bow Locks, where the Lee Navigation meets Bow Creek; it then proceeds directly south-west for 1.5 miles through the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to Limehouse Basin.
context_section_description: The cartoon captioned Dod Street Demonstrations contains an inset which, though incidentally, illustrates the area in late Victorian times.  The detail is reproduced here.  The arrow points towards Limehouse Cut.
  In the left foreground 1 is the rubber factory of Abbott, Anderson & Abbott who made the capes for the Metropolitan Police and oilskins for the Royal Navy.
  The last building 2 on the left — the one with the double lamps — is the "Silver Tavern" public house, informal headquarters of the East End Football Association, in which played such teams as Millwall Rovers, Tottenham Hotspur and the East End mission of Eton College.
  In the distance 3 is St Anne's Limehouse, while at the bottom of the street can be seen the Burdett Road horse-drawn tramway — a tram 4 has just crossed the Bridge.  Across Burdett Road begins the notorious St Anne Street Rookery, described below.
  The last building on the right 5 is a warehouse soon to become the Outcasts' Haven (below).
caption: Dod Street sketched on Sunday 27 September 1885[147]
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